{"id":1302545,"date":"2019-01-17T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=443362"},"modified":"2019-01-17T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T20:40:15","slug":"letter-a-more-practical-idea-for-avon-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-a-more-practical-idea-for-avon-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: A more practical idea for Avon barn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail_default\">As an outside observer, I was fascinated to read John LaConte\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/avon-recommendation-on-hahnewald-barn-move-it-to-former-town-hall-site\/\">article describing the Avon Council\u2019s reaction to moving and renovating the<\/a> Hahnewald barn to the old Town Hall site. On one hand, it has historical and sentimental value having survived 100 years at its present location. On the other hand, it is a huge structure that is difficult to move and will dwarf anything in the neighborhood.\u00a0 That, plus a June 1 deadline complicates plans to save it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">It seems to me the council has two viable options: Go to the voters now to approve a multi-million dollar bond issue to save and renovate the barn; or salvage the barn board and log materials and put them to use in an appropriate structure.\u00a0 The barn would live on but in a different form. Spending $390,000 for a temporary barn move to buy time would seem to be an unwise expenditure, especially if the voters turned down the bond issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">Personally, I think commissioner Alex Dammeyer has a more practical idea. \u201cTake the wood, store it and then reassemble it with new structural walls.\u201d This would save the barn\u2019s value within the required time constraint and allow time for planning an ultimate use of the materials. I\u2019m reminded of the TV program called \u201cBarnwood Builders,\u201d where a crew dismantles historic barns and puts the materials to good use building other structures. It\u2019s an interesting process and seems to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">Dave Mott<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">Wolcott<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/letter-a-more-practical-idea-for-avon-barn\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an outside observer, I was fascinated to read John LaConte\u2019s article describing the Avon Council\u2019s reaction to moving and renovating the Hahnewald barn to the old Town Hall site. On one hand, it has historical and sentimental value having survived 100 years at its present location. On the other hand, it is a huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 17:08:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}